Faunus

Roman · deity · primordial · deity

Roman rustic god of forests, flocks and prophecy; identified with Pan.

Children

Bona Dea

Domains

forests and flocks

Powers

Delivers prophecy to suppliants sleeping in his grove
Protects herds and fields as woodland Lupercus

Epithets

Faunus Lupercus
Fatuus
Lupercus
Inuus

Relations

descendant of: Saturn

Sources

Ovid, Fasti 2.193; Virgil, Aeneid 7.81

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